Find a Therapist in Parkville, MD

I create a comfortable and casual environment while we discuss some of the most challenging concerns you bring to therapy.

My name is Emilee Smith and I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in Virginia, working with clients state-wide via telehealth. I have experience working with many populations including children, adolescents, adults, and families. I have experience helping people with anxiety, depression, and parent-child relationships. I utilize cognitive behavioral therapy techniques and dialectical behavior therapy techniques to help clients feel better, communicate effectively, and have healthy relationships. These evidence-based approaches involve developing healthy ways of thinking and healthy coping skills while validating the client's feelings and experiences. The client and I work together as a team to reach their therapeutic goals.

Stress, overwhelm, intrusive and reoccurring thoughts, burnout, feeling like you're barely holding it all together, I help people living with anxiety, depression, and intrusive thoughts find their way back to feeling like themselves. I work with men to become better communicators, understand themselves better, and move through life transitions. And I have a soft spot for couples, helping them communicate and connect more deeply. I’m a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) and hold a Master’s in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Waynesburg University. I use evidence-based practices, including acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), and dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), with my clients.

I believe that therapy is most helpful when it is an experience and not just talking about thoughts. As a relational psychodynamic therapist, I think there is a lot to be gained from having more insight and clarity into ourselves and the ways we function in the world and our relationships. As a somatically informed therapist, I think building awareness of our bodies and what they are telling us opens up even more avenues for healing, especially when insight doesn't feel like it is enough. I work holistically and from a trauma-informed lens to combine the two in a way that is uniquely right for you and your needs. To this end, I have completed foundational training in Sensorimotor Therapy for trauma, a somatic psychotherapy, as well as a three-year training in Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy, a modality which combines psychoanalytic insight and depth with a focus on our bodies and emotions. The style of therapy I practice is active and collaborative, focusing not only on intellectual insight but also on helping you to have a new, meaningful experience. I believe a good therapy relationship, like any good relationship, allows us to feel seen, heard, and compassionately challenged to grow and create the change we want in our lives.

It's time now to genuinely feel and function better. In order to do that, it's essential to pay close attention to your internal responses to the difficulties and patterns that have been cropping up in your closest relationships, your work, and with respect to your own self-concept, and to do so with someone who can help you see things differently and perhaps more accurately. Together, we will create an open, accepting, safe space, where you also will feel helpfully and persistently challenged to know yourself much better from the inside out, and as quickly as possible.

I am a Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP) with 8 years of experience in behavioral health. I work with individuals navigating anxiety, depression, bipolar, posttraumatic stress (PTSD), obsessive-compulsive challenges (OCD), schizophrenia, eating-related challenges, dementia, and life transitions. I strive to create a compassionate, stigma-free environment where clients feel heard, respected, and supported as they work toward symptom relief, clarity, and emotional balance.

Guilhem Combet is a master’s-level clinician working toward licensure as a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC). He is deeply committed to working with adolescents and adults to help them address the unique challenges they face and discover new ways to navigate life’s stressors. He specializes in anxiety, depression, trauma, LGBTQIA+ issues, and self-esteem. Guilhem completed his Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Psychology at Franklin & Marshall College and his Master of Arts (MA) in Mental Health Counseling at New York University.

I am here to help with anxiety, depression, trauma and PTSD, relationship issues, life transitions and more. Through respect, understanding, honesty and a touch of humor, therapy becomes a safe place to ease distress and accomplish goals. As we work together, therapy can help with easing symptoms, healing and recovery, improving life satisfaction, relationships and well being. I incorporate the wisdom and tools from various psychotherapy approaches. Some clients choose to include the calming effects of mindfulness or meditation as part of therapy. As a Psychotherapist, I - Listen for what you say, feel and mean, seeking to understand what life is like for you and what kind of life you desire. - Ask what you feel and believe about yourself and the world. - Help you connect with your internal and external resources for coping and change. - Consider how patterns and habits may be helping or keeping you stuck. - Provide information, feedback and guidance. - Help with coping, recovery and healing from life's most challenging and painful experiences. - Help you pursue your meaningful goals. - Plan with you ways to support your progress in between sessions and help positive changes last. - Look toward your creating more meaningful ways to approach daily life, relationships, health and emotional well being. I offer Psychotherapy and Teletherapy for adults and teens (16 and older) and Couples Therapy. Treatment is available in person, online or combined.

WE CAN HELP HEAL YOUR RELATIONSHIP. "Why does my partner overreact?" "Why do I get so triggered?" "How come the punishment doesn't fit the crime?" “Why can’t he be more supportive?” “Is anything I do ever enough for her?” While you are feeling hurt, you have an added layer of confusion. You simultaneously love your partner and even hope to stay in this relationship to keep your love, family, and dreams intact. You are torn in a tug-of-war of emotions and desire to feel understood, accepted, and embraced by your partner. HEAL YOUR RELATIONSHIP AT ITS ROOT! Your dynamic is being driven by vulnerable and deep emotions. Those deep emotions are sensitive ‘raw spots' that are easily provoked and can cause you intolerable emotional discomfort- and leads to a “fight-or-flight” (anxious, angry, avoidant) response. This starts a negative cycle that creates more distance between you. CHANGE IS POSSIBLE! In therapy with us, you will learn strategies to respond differently and avoid slipping into old negative cycles of criticism, questioning, defensiveness, shutting down, and avoidance. We’ve helped HUNDREDS of people experience EMOTIONAL INTIMACY by learning how to effectively share and receive each other’s deeper emotions.

Hello, My name is Benjamin Cerniglia. I'm a licensed professional counselor practicing within my own private practice named, Beautiful Victory Counseling. My practice is completely online for anyone interested in meeting remotely for therapy. Thank you for viewing my profile! My mission is to provide individuals, couples, and groups with therapy that offers hope and empowerment to make the necessary lifestyle changes to elicit the healthier living you desire. I founded Beautiful Victory Counseling to provide those suffering due to mental illnesses, life transitions, or relational difficulties the strength to persevere in the face of adversity. I work exceptionally well with adults of all ages. I specialize in working with persons struggling to manage their depression and-or anxiety. By forming a safe and healthy relationship with my clients, I can support each client individually by helping them to improve their insights and learn effective coping strategies to manage their struggles.

I work collaboratively with individuals, couples, families and groups towards real change. My approach pulls from a variety of techniques based on the need of the client. My primary modalities include Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) to provide specific tools; Gottman method for couples; as well as other techniques based upon the need of the client.

Are you struggling with your relationship with your children, partner, friend or family member? Maybe you are in an unhealthy pattern of communicating and it just seems impossible to get out of? You probably are having the same argument over and over and things are not changing. Perhaps you are a single mom who feels like no matter what you do, co-parenitng in a healthy way just does not seem to be working? As a result your child is acting out, or your relationship is crumbling. People get stuck in unhealthy patterns of interacting that lead to unwanted symptoms, such as anxiety, panic attacks, phobias, depression, behavior problems, OCD, and much more. My mission is to create a warm and supportive atmosphere where clients can openly confront issues, learn to better manage emotions, and engage in working toward their unique goals within a relational framework. As a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist my passion lies in co-discovering negative unhealthy patterns of interactions that keep familiescouples and or individuals stuck and disconnected. It would be my pleasure to walk along side of you and or your family! Please contact me for a free consultation, to make sure I am the best fit !